A Lady's Choice_A Pride and Prejudice Sensual Intimate Collection by Jane Hunter

Author:Jane Hunter [Hunter, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781081582661
Amazon: 1081582669
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2019-07-20T00:00:00+00:00

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Elizabeth’s Folly

Elizabeth’s Folly

Chapter One

“But how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue...”

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Elizabeth could scarcely believe the letter that she held in her hand. Lydia… disappeared from under Colonel Forster’s watchful eye and gone from Brighton? It was almost too much to bear. Too much indeed.

She sat heavily in the rough wooden chair and covered her face with her hands, but the tears would not stop coming. However, anger and frustration spurred her misery, nothing more.

“Thoughtless, Lydia! How selfish you are!” Elizabeth muttered the words and tried to gain control over her emotions. Her cheeks burned with anger and her hands shook as she unfolded Jane’s letter to read it once more. There it was in her sister’s graceful hand, Lydia, gone from Brighton and in the company of Mr. Wickham.

The scoundrel. She had known it from the start, and she cursed herself for ever having sympathized with his lies. He had played her for a fool. Moreover, while he had been garnering Elizabeth’s support, he had been courting Lydia… Lydia! The shame of it. The scandal. Lydia was a foolish girl, that much was true, but surely she could not have put aside all of her better judgment and everything she had been taught for the sake of this man.

Angry tears coursed down her hot cheeks and Elizabeth could not help but feel helpless. Even though she knew that it was wrong to give in to the guilt that washed over her, she still wondered if there was something she could have done, more attention she could have paid to Lydia’s manners… something that could have prevented this disaster. If nothing else, Lydia was as headstrong as Elizabeth herself was, and if she had been a sillier young woman, she might have fallen into the same trap as Lydia now found herself in. Worst of all, Lydia probably did not feel as though she had done anything wrong.

Elizabeth let out a furiously frustrated groan. Lydia was most likely glorying in a very clever game, and enjoying the thought that her sisters would be overcome with jealousy at the grand adventure she was having. No doubt Kitty would be suitably jealous, but all Elizabeth could think of was the scandal that now say upon their family.

To think that all and sundry would know the details of Lydia’s flight from Brighton, and that not only had she gone unchaperoned but that her youngest sister’s passions were stronger than her virtue… the chance that such a stigma would be passed on to the rest of the unmarried Bennet daughters was almost too much to be borne.

She read Jane’s letters once more, feeling furious tears prick at her eyelashes once more as her eyes found the words she dreaded… that it was not yet known if Lydia and Mr. Wickham were married. She slammed the letters down onto the rough table before her. She had to tell Mrs.

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